Another close game, but another loss for the Owen Sound Attack.
Sebastian Mogull was the overtime hero as the Barrie Colts rallied from an early 3-0 hole to clip the Attack 4-3 in Ontario Hockey League action Wednesday evening at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre.
Carter Lowe scored twice for the Colts (4-13-3), and Jonah McCormick also had a goal. Barrie ended a four-game losing streak.
Julian Brown, Jeremy Freeman and Harry Nansi scored for the Attack (6-10-4), which lost its fifth straight game — and third in a row in overtime.
Things slowly turned against the Attack over the course of the game, after they put together their best first period of the season. Owen Sound jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first and outshot the Colts 14-6. Brown opened the scoring nine minutes in. Then Freeman notched his first as a member of the Attack, before Nansi fired one five-hole past Matvei Nikonovich 25 seconds later to put the hosts up three.
Nansi’s goal at 14:28 of the first period turned out to be Owen Sound’s last in the game.
“You can’t win if you don’t score. It’s the same story every game right now. I’m frustrated. I’m not going to lie. I feel like we deserved a better fate,” Attack Head Coach Keenan Reynolds says during the 89.3 CFOS post-game show. “But, ultimately if you let teams hang around … this is what happens. They claw their way back in.”
“Clearly we need to work on overtime. Some really poor decisions out there by our players,” Reynolds continues. “It’s frustrating no doubt.”
Lowe and McCormick scored in the second period to bring the Colts within one. And then just over three minutes into the third, Lowe was left unmarked in front of the Attack net, got a pass and flipped a shot by Leenders to tie the game 3-3.
Mogull’s overtime winner came on a 2-on-1 rush. He put a wrist shot by Leenders glove side with 1:08 left in the extra frame.
The Attack took their fourth loss of the season when leading after two, most in the OHL.
Nikonovich made 30 saves in the win, while Leenders stopped 19 taking the loss. The Attack outshot the Colts 33-23 while going 0 for 1 on the power play; Barrie finished 0 for 3.
Owen Sound’s four-game homestand continues Saturday, when Guelph Storm visit the Bayshore.